The space rock, known as 2000 EM26, poses no threat and passed the Earth at just under nine times the distance to the moon. Though, it is defined as a potentially hazardous Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) that was large enough to cause significant damage in the event of an impact.

This was subtle reminder of the dangers of the asteroid impacts just one year after historic event took place on February, 2013.

A previous-unknown discovered asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia and injured 1200 people and sent shock waves shattering windows and damaging buildings in Chelyabinsk.